Biblical Criticism & Interpretation

The Torah Unabridged is a detailed examination of legal reasoning in the Hebrew Bible. Focusing on the exegetical operations by which biblical laws related to intermarriage were applied to circumstances and persons that lie outside the sphere of their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161502699Author Christopher M. HaysFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint Mohr SiebeckPublisher Mohr SiebeckWeight(grams) 562g

What is so new about the New Testament? Senior scholar Donald Hagner tackles the issue of how distinct early Christianity was from the first-century Judaism from which it emerged. He surveys newness in the entire New Testament canon, examining the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783161564215Author Seyoon KimFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Mohr SiebeckPublisher Mohr SiebeckWeight(grams) 188g

Death still comes to Everyman, but this study of three twentieth-century German plays shows the harder challenge of living without salvation in an age of war and unprecedented mass destruction. Death comes to everyone, and in the late-medieval...

Two verses about Moses in the Bible have been the subject of debate since the first century. In Exodus 33:20, God tells Moses that no one can see God and live, but Numbers 12:8 says that Moses sees the form of the Lord. How does one reconcile these two...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802824332Author Bruce W. WinterFormat PaperbackPage Count 492Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Jeffrey Stackert addresses two of the oldest and most persistent problems in biblical studies: the relationship between prophecy and law in the Hebrew Bible and the utility of the Documentary Hypothesis for understanding Israelite religion. These topics...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532690440Author Eugenio CorsiniFormat HardbackPage Count 430Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

What do evangelicals believe when they 'believe in the Bible?' Despite hundreds of English versions that differ in their texts, evangelicals continue to believe that there is a stable text-'the Bible'-which is the authoritative word of God and an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805212518Author Avivah Gottlieb ZornbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 567gDimensions(mm)...

A groundbreaking account of the Secret Gospel of Mark, one of the most hotly debated documents in Christian history In 1958, at the ancient Christian monastery of Mar Saba just outside Jerusalem, Columbia University scholar Morton Smith claimed to have...

The essence of true love is in the yearning not in the consummation. This literary analysis of the Song of Songs employs the methods of New Criticism. Each analysis aims to uncover the messages conveyed by the poems and the inner world of the characters...

The story of the woman taken in adultery features a dramatic confrontation between Jesus and the Pharisees over whether the adulteress should be stoned as the law commands. In response, Jesus famously states, "Let him who is without sin be the first to...

The disengagement of recent academic biblical study from church and synagogue has been widely noted. Even within the discipline, there are those who suggest it has lost its way. As the discipline now stands, is it mainly concerned with studying and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802803887Author Matthias HenzeFormat PaperbackPage Count 568Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

In this brief and highly accessible volume in the For Today series, distinguished biblical scholar and churchman Walter Harrelson explores the meaning and continuing importance of the Ten Commandments for Christians today. Harrelson writes in his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780664234010Author Jaime Clark-SolesFormat HardbackPage Count 408Imprint Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S.Publisher Westminster/John Knox Press,U.S...

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Was God being ironic in commanding Eve not to eat fruit from the tree of wisdom? Carolyn J. Sharp suggests that many stories in the Hebrew Scriptures may be ironically intended. Deftly interweaving literary theory and exegesis, Sharp illumines the power...

An easy-to-learn, easy-to-use tool for in-depth Bible studyBeloved and acclaimed for more than five generations, the Thompson (R) Chain-Reference (R) Bible is unparalleled in its ability to enrich personal devotions, topical study, and sermon preparation...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780800631161Author Carol J. Dempsey, OPFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Augsburg FortressPublisher Augsburg FortressWeight(grams) 389g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780835607056Author Geoffrey HodsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Quest Books,U.S.Publisher Quest Books,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781532638930Author Peter OchsFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams) 363gDimensions(mm)...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802873637Author Daniel L. MiglioreFormat PaperbackPage Count 254Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing Co

Robert J. Daly S.J. examines the concept of sacrifice in the ancient Mediterranean world, and discusses how the rise of bloodless Christian sacrifice, and the use of sacrificial language in reference to highly spiritualized Christian lives, would have...

New Testament scholars typically assume that the men who pervade the pages of Luke's two volumes are models of an implied "manliness." Scholars rarely question how Lukan men measure up to ancient masculine mores, even though masculinity is increasingly...

The future has always been a subject of immense fascination. It is generally acknowledged that the concept of time and change which permits us to concieve of a time to come is to be found alreay well-developed in ancient Israel, adn that this concept,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802847874Author Roland Kenneth HarrisonFormat PaperbackPage Count 680Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781666730678Author Andrew PerrimanFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Cascade BooksPublisher Cascade BooksWeight(grams) 404gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

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Most experts who seek to understand the historical Jesus focus only on the Synoptic Gospels of Mark, Matthew and Luke. However, the contributors of this volume come to an important consensus: that the Gospel of John preserves traditions that are...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780802848505Author Joan O'DonovanFormat PaperbackPage Count 188Imprint William B Eerdmans Publishing CoPublisher William B Eerdmans Publishing...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884140948Author Siegfried KreuzerFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint SBL PressPublisher SBL PressWeight(grams) 485g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780884143642Author Marianne GrohmannFormat HardbackPage Count 404Imprint SBL PressPublisher SBL PressWeight(grams) 762g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345451453Author Paul PerryFormat HardbackPage Count 269Imprint Random House Value PublicationsPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

"By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion." The line that begins Psalm 137 is one of the most lyrical of the Hebrew Bible, and has been used since its genesis to evoke the grief and protest of exiled,...

This collection of essays is drawn from a series of previous collections to which the author has contributed that were designed to honour senior scholars in the discipline of Old Testament study. Each of these essays reflects a distinct intention...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060689292Author Gerhard Von RadFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...